― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― kate, Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)
From the FAQ:
"Personal threads. If a thread is started discussing a registered user or their actions, that user has the right to ask for it to be deleted or locked. The thread does not have to be an attack on the user. This does not apply to threads users start themselves and later regret."
So the Becky Lucas threads can be deleted if Becky wants, and the 3some thread can go if you want.
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)
To [email protected]: I've seen it all before, and I've seen it done better and more entertaining btw, now its just boring. This is the only post I will write relating to you.
To Moderator: Zap it please
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)
hey - don't pick on me!
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― the wetback (M Matos), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)
That's what they all say!
― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)
And as for trolls and the like, they come, they go, it's the nature of things like this, they all get bored/boring in a relatively short period of time and go and annoy someone else.
Can we get back to talking about football now?
― chris (chris), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)
Mark C! I love your silk square and I wonder where I could get one.
― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)
well precisely, and I think that if someone thinks they have the ability to do this, then they will be encouraged to spar with someone like Becky and get involve with some harmless arguments with her. But there's bound to be a point when ppl feel that a boundary has been crossed and something needs to be clamped down on. That boundary might be an increase in the offensiveness of posts or it might just be a time boundary - one is prepared to handle being insulted or slagged off for a certain period of time, but then they find they can no longer stand it.
I generally regard myself as someone who is tolerant and liberal abt remarks that might be considered offensive (for two reasons: free speech being one and that the fact that I don't think being easily offended helps anyone being the other) whilst not being offensive myself. Of course the caveat here is that it is easy to make misjudgements and say something that offends someone without realising that it would. I tried to counter Becky's remarks with ones which were thoughtful & amusing whilst not being offensive and because I enjoy a good argument I *kept* doing it. Now I realise that my responses were prolly just puerile most of the time. Maybe I need to say something on Mark C's apologies thread, which is one of the best in here in a long while and couldn't be more apposite.
When I described Becky as a genius for a term for "bottom" which made me LOL, I had no idea of the can of worms that'd be unleashed a day or two later. I'll leave it to others to say whether or not this exhibited a terrible lack of foresight.
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)
so in that sense it is a test. we have nevah banned anyone (apart from doomie but he wanted it).
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― chris (chris), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)
To be brutally honest, we've never had another poster who has been this homophobic, racist and sexually abusive/explicit, so no wonder we've never had to think about banning anyone who hasn't asked specifically for this to be done.
I think that makes us pretty lucky, all told.
However, I think it would be a good idea to report this person to her ISP for the reasons I am citing above. And depending on who this user turns out to be, it might also be wise to contact her employer and forward a few of her threads as they are possibly criminal in the scope of their abuse.
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)
― kate, Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)
I just wanted to quote that. That is all. OK, I'm stopping feeding the trolls now.
How about those Mets?
― kate, Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 30 January 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)
or he really likes boxing and american football, maybe even ice hockey.
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)
They are looking interesting, with the Tom Glavine and Cliff Floyd acquisitions. Still, the lack of a clubhouse leader is a problem.
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)
Can we talk about this on private mail? Because I have my doubts...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)
(Art Howe's not that great a manager and this season will make that way too obvious)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)
I have tickets for Mets/Orioles in Fort Lauderdale on March 1. Who's coming with me and this goldfish?
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)
Hey, if I am being overly suspicious, great! I'd love to be proved wrong. But seriously, if you or Kate or somebody could drop me a line privately -- I'm not asking for *every* detail, but I'm hardly the only one to have my doubts based on the way he carries (or carried) himself on things -- maybe not everything, I'll grant you -- even recently.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)
Felicity, dahling, re: unwanted teams, could you, perchance, be talking about, say, THE BREWERS? Trade ya the Devil Rays for 'em. (Actually, I'll swap you Miller Park & the Seligs for Tropicana Field & a gross of oranges.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)
EXACTLY! The Mets need a hands-on manager. I mean, where's the leadership on that team? Billy Beane's the genius behind the A's.
The Marlins arms will falter, especially with such a horrible catcher calling the pitches (and yes I'm calling Pudge horrible).
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)
Chris, can I borrow your boundless BoSox enthusiasm for a couple of hours?
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)
It'll be nice for Pudge to have some decent pitching to work with for a change, I guess we'll see.
With Bill James as an advisor and the hottie new GM I guess we'll see if the Curse is real.
The NL Central just has too many teams. I say put the Astros in the NL West and switch the Rockies to the AL.
I am actually getting a little excited about the White Sox, who I predict will be a sleeper for 2003. They always had the toolsy guys like Ordonez and Konerko but now they have some pitching, too.
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)
I like the White Sox too, but I think the Foulke-Koch swap could cause them to lose some games (I'm not a Billy Believer).
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)
Oh well, Koch and Foulke are both foine to watch anyway, like most closers :)
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)